Speaking business and growing and thriving and such, have you considered some kind of way for users to donate towards the upkeep of the site? Like maybe donations or a paid account level or perhaps some kind of merchandise or something? A lot of people are getting a ton of enjoyment out of the site, I’d be surprised if there weren’t a few who would be happy to ‘help’. (If that would even be legal for you to do. I don’t know how the system works with these things where you live)

That’s much appreciated, and that generous attitude to part of the reason we have keep working on Steepster!

RE: the donating, we have considered it, but only as part of another project we’ve been working with off and on, a tool to plug into community sites and blogs to help people with followers support their passions/costs/etc. But we do have other ideas about how to make the site more sustainable (financially) so we can keep focusing on it. More news on that in the future for sure.